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Im going to have to disagree, as the HD twins still have life and the Wii is dead.
AM-Gamer
The Wii dying was just the natural process of generational succession. If the 360 or PS3 pass it up, it's not a cause of celebration, it's because the other horse finished and the others were allowed longer to cross the line. When the 3 were still in competition, the Wii beat them in sales hands down.
Except no its not, the reason the wii died was because it could no longer sustain a profit for Nintendo as it has been dead last in sales for the past 3 years in both hardware and software. The Wii has the unique distinction of a system that sold lots of hardware and no software because it relied on casuals who bought 1 game a year . Its no cause for celebrationb beause I could care less if the PS3 will outsell the Wii the fact of the mater is though it will as it has the past 3 years . It also has the distinction of being the first system to sell the most and have the shortest lifepsan of any major console. As SNES outlasted the Genesis. PS1 outlasted the N64, PS2 outlasted XB and GC and the Wii although it sold the most died before any of them.
That's market saturation. Everyone that wanted a Wii had one, and a lot of people wanted one.
The reason the Playstations lasted so long was because Sony continued support for both those consoles. After PS1 games stopped being produced, the market for them dropped off suddenly, and the same is starting to happen to the PS2. Nintendo has a habit of cutting off support immediately to it's past-gen systems, which is why their sales numbers drop so suddenly.
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